Pad for copying-presses



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A. SOHORNO.

PAD FOR COPYING PRESSES.

No. 427,802. Patented May 13, 1890.

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UNITED STATES ANTHONY SCHORNO, OF

PATENT OFFICE.

FORT LEE, NEXV JERSEY.

PAD FOR COPYlNG-PRESSES.

SPECIFICATION forming part of Letters Patent NO. 427,802, dated IYIay 13, 1890.

Application filed October 12, 1889. Serial No. 326,849. (No model.)

To all whom it may concern.-

Be it known that I, ANTHONY SoHoRNo, of Fort Lee, Bergen county, New Jersey, have invented an Improved Pad for Copying- Presses, of which the following is a specificatiou.

This invention relates to a pad so constructed as. to give off a uniform degree of moisture to a roller passed over the same. This roller is subsequently run over the tissue-paper of a letter-press copying-book, and thus the latter is quickly and uniformly moistened.

The invention consists in the various features of improvement more fully pointed out in the claim.

In the accompanying drawings'Figure 1 is a perspective view of my improved pad. Fig. 2 is a cross-section on line 0000, Fig. 1; and Fig. 3, a perspective View of the roller A.

The letter a represents a metal box, in which is contained a block b of wood. This block is shorter than the box, and is supported on feet 1). Thus a Water-space is left beneath the block and at the sides thereof.

0 is a felt'pad, which is placed upon the face of block b and folded around its upright sides. It may be nailed or otherwise secured to the bottom of the block.

In use the water is poured into the box a, so as to'fill the space beneath the block and to partly fill the annular space around the same. By capillary action the water will run up the upright portions of the pad and impart a uniform degree of moisture to its main fiat body. The space beneath the pad serves for the storage of a comparatively large body of water, so that the box need not be too frequently replenished.

The object of the block b is to give a solid support to the pad 0, so that the same does not sag or bend under pressure. Moreover, it prevents a too rapid absorption of moisture by the pad.

In use a hand rubber roller A is passed over the pad, and thence over the tissue-paper. The roller will, with one or at most with two runs over the paper, impart a uniform degree of moisture to it, which need not be partly taken up by a blotter. Thus the copying process can be evenly and quickly exeouted.

What I claim is- The combinationpvith a reservoir for water, of a solid block supported within the same by means of feet, with a space between it and the reservoir at the bottom and sides, and a felt pad upon the block, the edges of which extend down around the upright sides of the block and are secured to the bottom or under side of the block, whereby the entire edges of the pad are equallyimmersed in the water within the reservoir, substantially as described.

' A. SOHORNO.

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F. v. BRIEsEN, A. JoNeHMANs. 

